Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-05-13
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gational church Sunday evening. .....A Ar |
Dor Day passed off without much notice |
here Still quite Il number of trees were |
set. valuable team of horses be- !
long to Col. Joseph Battell ran away Sun |
day evening and badly demolished the car |
riage, besides somewhat injurng the dri- /
ver.. George II. Lang worthy, ,Sr., who has |
been laid up for several weeks, is able to be
On the streets 49,. Several nights during !
the past week woman who lives alone |
in a part of the tenement near the rail |
road track in the very centre of the viii |
lage has blown Il horn along toward |
midnight, and yelled murder" and pol !
ice" When the nightwatchman arrived |
on the scene nobody was to be found but /
the woman, but she claims that some one |
was around attempting TO moest her. |
Others living in the neighborhood appear
to have heard no noise but what she made
herself
The teachers institute for Addison
county will be held in Middlebury, begin
ming on Wednesday next and continues
three days. There will be three meetings
each day. Congressman Stewart will de-
liver the opening address, ,andamong others
who will present addresses or papers are
Superintendents Palmer of Middebury,
Haseltne of Bristol and Wright of Wal
than, and State superintendent Dartt of
Springfield, Principal Mead and Misses
Chapin, Mead and Bond of the Middle
bury graded school, Rev. S. f. Calhoun
and Miss A. J. Phelps of Orwell Prof
Wager of Mddlebury college and Dr. vii
liam A. Mowry of Boston,. William p.
McHugh returned from New York Tues
day. ......The Middlebury band has reor-
ganzed with j. b. Cobb rs leader, and the
boys have begun practice. The
troubles over the liquor agency here still
exist and the agency is still closed, not
withstandng the fact that the last town
meeting voted virtually that they wanted
the agency maintained The trouble
seems to have had its origin in the clash
ing interests of the town candidates for
the agency. The other evening while
| Charles Bruyea was splitting wood he
struck clothes line with the axe, which
rebounded and hit him just under the
right eye, cutting in to the bone and tenn
porarily destroying the sight of the eye.
North Hero.
! Eighteen years ago the water was much
| higher than at The present time. Greater
depth would cause the establishment of
several ferries to 90 from one end of the
! island TO the other. Pike fishing has
been good and the announcement of Com
missioner Brainerd that shooting and
! spearing them is legal has caused our fish
ermen to 90 out with renewed vigor. Sec
ton 1882 of the revised laws says that it is
S25 fine for killing or destroying fish with
the use of gunpowder or other explosives.
If what we call a pickerel in Lake Cham
plain is the eSOr lucits and is the same
fish that the law calls pike we fail to
see what authority Mr.. Brainerd has for
giving out that it is legal to violate our
fish laws When learned men dis agree it
Is not expected that the common people
can do better than TO construe the law AS
their fancy may dictate. The Isle La
Mott bridge is under w iter and fears are
entertained that it will 90 to pieces should
Il heavy sea roll in there from the south
..... The highway around the City"
bay is so badly washed away by the south
wind that travel there Is dangerous. .....
The store house on the new dock has
oated off and gone to pieces and the dock
is raised up and will probably be demol-
ished. ....C Capt. George Conn was the
first boatman to reach here this season.
swsnton.
There is quite movement in real estate
Just now. The Farrar estate has sold GO
acres of intervale for $50 per acre to H. b.
Bullard 40 acres, eear the Canada depot,
to II. Livingstone, also the ledge OF color
ed marble to George and r. l.. Barney.
This concern, which, bythe way, has the
oldest tile mill in the country, is filing an
order for l7,0C0 feet of tile for the new
, war department building at Washington.
...... The Village Improvement society
appointed a committee Tuesday evening
to arrange a programme of exercises and
outline work for Arbor Day ;;.... The fine
collection OF Indian relics collected by the
late H. w. Farrar, has been donated by
, ,, Rev. II. G. Farrar to the society of science
and art at Round Lake and will have Il
permanent place in the costly building
now in course of construction at that
place. This consists of about 1000 arrow
heads, a large number of spear heads
and hatchets beside a lot of inter
esting Indian trnkets Several valua
BILE collections have been picked up, piece
} by piece, in this immediate vicinity. The
Frnk collection Is in the State House
Nnnft liar hn lnln II ftgt, tt,t Ia.
J ! Smithsonian Institute, Washington; the
TruaX collection was recently purchased
by Prof. Perkins and is now among the
treasures of the L. V. NJ, at Burlington
and the Farrar collection goes to Round
Lake. Prof Perkins spends several days
here every summer and has lots of fun
digging for Ind ans with some of ouI
local relic hunters. The steamer Ma
guam Capt. Hawley, will begin running
Monday 49,. Mr.. Lang of Lang, Goodnue
* Co., Burlington, has been in town this
week consulting with our water works
. committee and estimating the cost of our
; proposed system ......J. A. Jewett has re
; turned faOm visit to the lumber mills AT
4 Victory in which the estate of the late
Col Jewett is interested. Mr.. Jewetl
: says there is plenty of snow up there and
! all the mountain streams are roaring
rivers. Trains on the Victory branch OF
r the st. Johnsbury and Lake ChamplaiI
are unable to run owing to high water.
!: just what Is to be done with the HOte
| Champlain at Maquam nobody seems t,
: know IL is the property of the st. Johns
> bury and Lake Champlain road and ha
. never been very successful as hote
though it is splendidly equipped and fur
, nished for the business
=, Cambridge.
y Gil Davis is at work on the new steam
grlst mill ..... Walter Wiley is at worl
for ii. n. Gray In his hardware store.
4, -, Rev. Gemont Graves held Episcopa
service at JetfersonvllIe Sunday morninl
and Rev. NJ. Tenney preached in the at
ternOon ... There will be SUNDAY
r school concert at the church at Jefferson
d vile next Sunday evening ..... Mr.. Henr
n Forter has removed his harness shop int,
r pas Of M. Randall's boot and shoe estat
:, lishment. ..T The suicide OF Mr.. Cornt
4 lius Grlswold is attributed 10 aberratio
e of mind. His domestic relations wer
r. happy and his financial affaies prosperou
r, beyond the average, His estate is estmal
d ed at about $4,000, lie was married
r. about year ago to the present Mrs
Iris 10 Nyifa To.